Refrigerator.



Witnesses Attorneys UN TED 's rArns A E T OFFICE.

Louis DE VAUX, or ALBERT LEA, MrNNEsorA, ssrGnoR TO HOME METALITIO ltEFRlGERATOR COMPANY, or. ALBERT LEA,- MINNE- SOTA.

REFRIGERATOR.

-' Patented Dec; 4, 1906.

To all whom it may concern/.-

. Be itknown that I, Louis DE VAUX, a citizen of the United State's,'residing at Albert Lea, in the county of Freeborn and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Refrigerator, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to refrigerators, and

i has for one of its objects to provide a simplyconstructed and easily-applied attachment for devices of this character whereby the water of condensation usually gathering upon and dripping from the ice-pan is-caught and conducted from the devic'eand prevented from falling into the provision-chamber. Another object of the invention is to provide animproved detachable coupling means between the ice-pan and drip-pan, whereby the joint between the parts is shielded from the corrosive action of the water resulting from the melting-ice and from the water resultingfrom the condensation. With these'and other objects in view,

which will appear as the nature of the invenchanges in the form, proportions, and minor detai s of construction may be'resorted to without departing from the principle or sacr ficing anyof the advantages of this inventlon within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawing the figure is a longitudinal section of an approved form of refrigeratorcasing and its ice-pan with the improved drip-pan attached.

The refrigerator-casing 10'is formed, preferably, of metal, with a detachable top 11, provision-chamber .12, and with a chamber 13 at the bottom to receive the Water of con-' densation, the chamber having an overflowpipe 14, and with a central tubular standard 15, which performs the twofold function of a support for the sh'elves 16- of the provisionchamber and also as a means for carrying the drip-Water to the chamber 13, as hereinafter flow into the drip-tubes.

in the casing 10 is an ice-pan 18, with its periphery spaced from the inner walls of the casing. A drip-pipe 1-9' depends from the ice-pan 18 and is arranged in vertical alinement above the combined standard and drippipe 15, as shown. "Surrounding the dripexplained. Suspended 'by,brackets 1 with pipe 19 is a threaded tubular member 20.

Disposed below the ice-pan 18 is a drip-pan 21, preferably conical, with its periphery spaced from the casing 10, but extending be-.

yond the periphery ofthe ice-pan, so that the water of condensation ,gatheringjupon the ice-pan will all run into the drip-pan, while "at the same time the air is free to circulate around all sides ofthe ice-pan and drip-pan.

The drip-pan is provided with a threaded tubular member 22, engaging the tubular member 20 of the ice-pan, by which means the drip-pan is detachably coupled to the icepan. The drip-pan 21 is also provided with a drip-pipe 23 somewhat'larger than the dr ppipe 19 of the ice-pan and adapted to receive the latter, the tubular member 22 having lateral apertures24 to permit the water to The drip-pipe 23 fits into the tubular standard 15, as shown.

By this simplearrangement itwill be cbvi-f ions that none of the drippings from the icechamber can get into the provision-chamber,

but will all be caught and carried into the lower chamber 13, which is designed to re ceive such deposits.v I V The pipe 19, extending from the ice-pan 18 and through the .threaded sleeve 20 and into the conductor-pipe'23, forms an effectual protection to the coupling member and pre vents Water from the melting ice coming in 'contact with the metal of-the coupling. The

coupling is thusshielded from corrosion and "oxidation. 1 v d The parts are all easily separable for cleansing and beingwholly' of metal can be easily maintained in a wholesomecondition and free from taint or smell. I -Having thus described the invention, what is claime is In a refrigerator, an inclosing casing, an

ice-pan movably supported in said casing and spaced from the walls of the same, a dripdepending from said icepan a threaded p1 e tu hular sleeve depending from said ice-pan and surrounding said drip-pipe and spaced therefr'om,e drip-pan spaced from the re viding meens of communication between the o frigeratonwalls and extending beyond the drip-pan and its discharge member.

' periphery of the ice-pan, a. tubular member In testimony that claim the foregolngas depending from said drip-pan and greater in my own'I have hereto aflixed my signature 7 diameter than and adapted to. receive said in the presence of two witnesses.

ice-pan drip-pipe and'it threaded tubular member connected to said dr ip-pan and-en- -Witnesses: v gaging the threaded sleeve depending from 'JOHN P. GREENE, the ice-pan and having spaced apertures '})1'()- Y L. O. REENE. 2

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